1. The document is a chapter from the book "Pocahontas" that provides reading activities and comprehension questions about the story. 2. It describes how Pocahontas saves John Smith's life by putting her head on his to stop her father from killing him with a stick. 3. The chapter also discusses Pocahontas falling in love with and later marrying John Rolfe, as well as her trip to London where she sees John Smith again.

1. Pocahontas Stage 1
Before Reading 3 John Smith taught Pocahontas many new things.
4 To Pocahontas, John Smith was the most exciting
activities answers
man in the world.
Before reading activities (page 44)
5 Pocahontas wanted John Smith for her husband.
Activity 1 before reading 6 Pocahontas didn’t visit John Smith for two months. /
1 No 2 Yes 3 No 4 Yes 5 Yes 6 Yes 7 No Pocahontas thought about John Smith every day.
Activity 2 before reading chApter 5 while reading
Encourage students to speculate and to make 1 He wanted a big English house with windows of
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will glass, and he wanted some guns.
find out as they read that the answers are: 2 He felt very angry.
1 Pocahontas marries another Englishman. 3 Out of the forest.
2 The Indians don’t kill John Smith. 4 Because John Smith had his gun in Opekankanu’s
3 The English and the Indians are enemies. face, and he could kill Opekankanu before an arrow
4 John Smith goes back to England. could kill him.
5 Pocahontas visits England. 5 Because there was often fighting between the English
6 Pocahontas dies when she is still young. and the Indians.
7 The story has an unhappy ending. 6 The Englishmen wanted the Indians’ corn, and the
Indians wanted the Englishmen’s guns.
While Reading 7 Five hundred.
8 Because he had a bad accident with some
chApter 1 while reading
gunpowder, and was very ill.
There are 13 possible sentences: 9 She went away into the forest and cried for a long
• The Indians had corn. time.
• The Indians wanted knives / guns / beads / pictures. Before reAding chApter 6
• The Englishmen had knives / ships / guns / beads / Encourage speculation but do not tell students the
pictures. answer. They will find out as they read that the
• The Englishmen wanted corn. answer is number 2.
• The Englishmen built a town / houses.
chApter 6 while reading
chApters 2 And 3 while reading 1 What . . .? When they found them in the forest or by
1 Powhatan to Pocahontas the river, they killed them and took their guns.
2 John Smith to Powhatan 2 Why . . .? Because they wanted Powhatan to stop
3 Opekankanu to Powhatan fighting them, and to give them back their guns.
4 Pocahontas to Powhatan 3 What . . .? His guns.
5 Pocahontas to Opekankanu 4 Who . . .? The Englishwomen of Jamestown.
6 Opekankanu to John Smith 5 Who . . .? An Englishman called John Rolfe.
7 John Smith to Opekankanu 6 Why . . .? Because she was the most beautiful and
8 Powhatan to Pocahontas interesting woman in Jamestown, and he loved her.
Before reAding chApter 4 chApter 7 while reading
Encourage students to speculate and to make 1 T
guesses but do not tell them the answers. They will 2 F Everybody in London wanted to be Pocahontas’
find out as they read that the answers are: friend.
1 No 3 F Queen Anne told Pocahontas that John Smith
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2 Pocahontas tells John Smith that she wants him for was alive.
her husband, but he says that she is only a child. 4 T
After that, she doesn’t visit him for two months. 5 F She was not happy when John Smith came to see
chApter 4 while reading
her.
1 Powhatan had thousands of men. / The Englishmen 6 T
had only a hundred and fifty men. 7 F Pocahontas died when she was a young woman.
2 Pocahontas often visited Jamestown. 8 T
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2. After Reading Activity 3 after reading
The picture goes on page 39.
1 Pocahontas, her little son Thomas, and John Smith.
Activity 1 after reading
2 In London, in England.
If students need help with this, encourage them to
3 Because she loved John Smith once, but now they
look at the links in the language.
could not be friends.
3 PowhAtAn: Listen, Pocahontas. When the men
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Possible captions would be lines from the text on
bring the Englishman in front of me and put his
page 39, for example:
head on the stone, you must watch Opekankanu.
• ‘Now I have a son and a husband,’ Pocahontas said.
8 PoCAhontAs: Do I speak to Opekankanu?
• ‘You and I cannot be friends,’ Pocahontas said sadly.
11 PowhAtAn: No, say nothing. Just watch him. But
‘Goodbye, John Smith.’
when he walks to the stone with his stick, get
• ‘Goodbye, Pocahontas,’ said John Smith.
ready to run.
Students may wish to think of something more
6 PoCAhontAs: Run? Run where, father?
imaginative, such as:
1 PowhAtAn: Run to John Smith and put your arms
• The last goodbye for John Smith and Pocahontas.
over his head, before Opekankanu’s stick comes
down. Activity 4 after reading
4 PoCAhontAs: And then do I take John Smith away? Dear King James and Queen Anne
9 PowhAtAn: No, first you must ask for his life. Say, My friends tell me that Pocahontas is in London. I
‘Father – don’t kill this man!’ Can you do this for would like to see her very much. We were friends in
me? Virginia. Her father’s brother wanted to kill me, but
2 PoCAhontAs: Yes, I can. But why must I do this, Pocahontas stopped him. She often came to Jamestown,
father? You are the King. You can say ‘no’ to and she helped the English a lot in those early days.
Opekankanu. She was a little girl then. Does she remember me now?
5 PowhAtAn: Of course I can say ‘no’. But I want Perhaps I can see her in London. Please tell her about
John Smith to learn something. me, and say hello to her from me.
10 PoCAhontAs: Learn what, father? John Smith
7 PowhAtAn: He must learn that I am the King in this
Activity 5 after reading
country. And a King can give life, or he can take
Open answers.
it away.
Activity 2 after reading
Words across: corn, field, glass, arrow, bird, queen,
gun, finger, vegetables
Words down: compass, stone, bow, walls, fish, chief,
bead, church, world
C O R N M Y F F A T H W
O E R L I F I E L D C O
M K G L A S S C E S H R
P H I B S G H H U N U L
A R R O W S B I B I R D
S S E W A Q U E E N C T
S T T E L R T F A H H A
N O H I L S D A D G U N
U N G H S T F I N G E R
V E G E T A B L E S E R
1 The sentence is: ‘My father likes his guns better than
his daughter.’
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2 Pocahontas.
3 In Jamestown, with her English friends.
4 She stayed in the houses of her English friends,
played with their children, and spoke English all the
time.
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